Sir Donald L’Orange should really stop tweeting, if he doesn’t want to twitter his way right out of the White House and into some far less expansive and commodious quarters. Apparently, however, he just can’t help himself, and as most of us know by this point in the day, he issued what amounts to a thinly-veiled threat to recently unemployed former FBI Director James Comey. Referencing a dinner the two had at the White House on January 27th, Trump implied that maybe, just maybe, there is a “tape” (who does that these days?!) of their dinner conversation. Not only that, but said “tape” might just reveal that Comey not only asked to remain “on the job” under the new Trump administration — but that Comey also told His Orangeness that No-How No-Way Bad-Hombre Jose was he under any type of investigation regarding all-things-Russian.
Here’s the tweet text, in case you missed it: “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.”
Setting aside the obvious — ie. Comey, now a private citizen, has the First Amendment right to tell his side of the story — what we are left with astounding. Sir Donald is basically implying that he did exactly what he accused our much-missed former POTUS of: secretly “taping” people. Bad/sick guy, that Trump.
As the day unfolded, this story took on a life of its own, and many twists and turns later, arrived at my favorite development thus far. Mr. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and a brilliant prosecutor with some interesting cases in his dossier of past endeavors, took on Sir L’Orange and the dubious tweet that had issued forth from his tiny fingers on his tiny hands. Adam Schiff called his bluff, and issued the following statement:
“For a President who baselessly accused his predecessor of illegally wiretapping him, that Mr. Trump would suggest that he, himself, may have engaged in such conduct is staggering. The President should immediately provide any such recordings to Congress or admit, once again, to have made a deliberately misleading—and in this case threatening—statement.”
Trump has to respond, and I read that statement as basically presenting two options. So which one will His Orangeness pick: Option #1 or Option #2? Well, Stupid is as Stupid does. I’m betting a quid on Option #3.